Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fraternizing. Darkness came and the camp fires gleamed upon the field. When dawn broke, several divisions of Republican regulars were discovered in Lumber Wood. Brigadiers McNary and Steiwer of Oregon with other western Republican officers -Johnson of California among them -were gathered in conclave. The Republican high command had decided that lumber and shingles should go on the free list, abandoned to the enemy. Unwilling that this should happen because of sentiment at home, the Westerners urged formation of a western bloc, talked of getting 13 Republican brigades to defend the wood, hoped to induce six western Democratic brigadiers...
...Great Kizil Kum Desert, cotton was cultivated 10,000 years before Christ, but these plantations have long since been obliterated by the shifting sands. With expert American help the Soviet government intends to make the rivers in Turkestan do for this enormous barren area what the rivers of California and other States have done for American waste land...
...Nowhere in the world, not even in the famous Valley of Death in California, is there such a forbidding, barren district as this, where water is of even greater value than gold and which is strewn with the bones of cattle and camels which perished from thirst...
Doolittle. Short and compact is the Army's best flyer, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle. Able was he, in a college boxing tournament at the University of California some years ago, to hold his own-and a little more than his own-against strapping Eric Pedley, eight-goal California poloist (see p. 64). At the Cleveland Air Show last month. Flyer Doolittle flew the wings off a ship, diving at 200 m.p.h. Floating down in his parachute he laughed at the episode and took up another stunting ship immediately. The Army Air Corps has a questionnaire which flyers must fill...
...Rand" in upper New York state stands for "Banking" as much as does "Giannini" in California. Just dedicated is the Rand Building, tallest of Buffalo skyscrapers, a memorial from Banker Rand to his father, George Franklin Rand Sr.,? remembered as an able banker and a mainspring of Buffalo finance...